Has 3 HR in his last 9 starts.Driven in a run in 6 of his last 15 games.Batting .385 in Late/Close situations.His 11 walks are all against right-handers.Made 21-straight starts without committing an error.Name that Cub!

It’s time the Cubs removed Chris Volstad from the starting rotation and replaced him with Travis Wood.

Wood’s lone outing this season, a quality six inning start of 3-runs on 3-hits during last Sunday’s 4-3 win against Los Angeles, is better than anything Volstad has accomplished this season.

Meanwhile, Volstad’s inability to pitch out of trouble and avoid the big inning was in full effect Saturday afternoon as he allowed six earned runs in six innings, five of which scored in the sixth inning.

More to the point, it was exactly the kind of poor performance the Cubs didn’t need in the aftermath of Friday’s brutal 8-7 loss in 13-innings. But Volstad, as has been the case all season, failed to deliver.

Hot-hitting Steve Clevenger, off to a 11-for-22 start at the plate, was on the brink of becoming Dale Sveum’s everyday catcher before suffering tightness in his right side.

The injury forced Clevenger to the 15-day DL on April 30, which doesn’t expire until next Tuesday.

But even from the training table Clevenger appears to have the upper hand on Geovany Soto, whose season-long slump has dropped his batting average to .152, ranking 29th among major league back stoppers.